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  • The Pope of Happiness
    Alex C. Michalos
    This book honors the work of Ruut Veenhoven, who has been a pioneer and leader in the field of happiness studies for the past 50 years. It brings together experts in the field discussing Veenhoven’s work as well as taking up themes from his workshops over the years to analyze how and where the field has expanded following his research. Veenhoven’s contributions include developi...
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    133,70 €

  • The Pope of Happiness
    Alex C. Michalos
    This book honors the work of Ruut Veenhoven, who has been a pioneer and leader in the field of happiness studies for the past 50 years. It brings together experts in the field discussing Veenhoven’s work as well as taking up themes from his workshops over the years to analyze how and where the field has expanded following his research. Veenhoven’s contributions include developi...
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    47,63 €

  • The Pope of Happiness
    Alex C. Michalos
    This book honors the work of Ruut Veenhoven, who has been a pioneer and leader in the field of happiness studies for the past 50 years. It brings together experts in the field discussing Veenhoven’s work as well as taking up themes from his workshops over the years to analyze how and where the field has expanded following his research. Veenhoven’s contributions include developi...
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    132,35 €

  • Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments
    Alex C. Michalos
    The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept. The volume summarizes Michalos’ fundamental assumptions about the nature of quality of life or human well-being and explains in detail the two variable theory of the quality of life. It gives an update of the journal Social Indicators Research after forty y...
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    65,83 €

  • Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education
    Alex C. Michalos
    This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life. It includes discussions of Galen’s and Harvey’s views of the movement of blood in human bodies, and differences in the research traditions of social indicators research and health-related quality of life research. It examines determinants of health and quality of life in a var...
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    102,47 €

  • How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos
    This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility. It builds on the premise that public policy making is essentially a species of good decision making, as explain...
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    65,68 €

  • Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos
    This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos’ work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value. After distinguishing things that have value from the value that things might have, it describes the foundations of a pragmatic theory of value. This theory plays a k...
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    102,94 €

  • Connecting the Quality of Life Theory to Health, Well-being and Education
    Alex C. Michalos / Alex CMichalos
    Introduction: Context and Connections.- Chapter 1. Cost-Benefit Versus Expected Utility Acceptance Rules.- Chapter 2. Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research.- Chapter 3. Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction: Life facet Satisfaction Relationships; Mallard, A.C.G., Lance, C.E. and Michalos, A.C..- Chapter 4. Determinants of Health an...
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    101,12 €

  • Development of Quality of Life Theory and Its Instruments
    Alex C. Michalos / Alex CMichalos
    The focus of this volume is on the further development of the Quality of Life Theory and the means to measure the concept. The volume summarizes Michalos’ fundamental assumptions about the nature of quality of life or human well-being and explains in detail the two variable theory of the quality of life. It gives an update of the journal Social Indicators Research after forty y...
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    64,48 €

  • How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos / Alex CMichalos
    This volume provides bridges from the social sciences to business ethics and from the latter to the quality of life, by connecting the research themes of quality of life, social sciences, including public policy-making, and business ethics or corporate responsibility. It builds on the premise that public policy making is essentially a species of good decision making, as explain...
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    64,32 €

  • Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos / Alex CMichalos
    Chapter 1. Introduction: Context and Connections.- Chapter 2. Alex C. Michalos: Pioneer of Quality of Life and Social Indicators; Bruno Zumbo.- Chapter 3. An Interview with Alex C. Michalos; Dan Weijers.- Chapter 4. The Best Teacher I Ever Had Was J. Coert Rylaarsdam.- Chapter 5. The Case for Atheism, Notes for a Discussion; Alex C. Michalos.- Chapter 6. Logic, Philosophy of Sc...
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    101,59 €

  • Ancient Views on the Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos / Alex CMichalos
    This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western...
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    67,10 €

  • North American Social Report
    Alex C. Michalos
    For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the ftrst, some introductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all ftve volumes to measure the quality of life. In the ftrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators and social reporting, and explained all the general difficulties involve...
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    48,24 €

  • North American Social Report
    Alex C. Michalos
    It would have been nice to have been able to write this book with the style of Mailer, the wit of Shaw, the breadth of Myrdal and the zeal of Nader. It would also have been miraculous. Rest assured there are no miracles here. On the contrary, the work in your hands undoubtedly bears all the marks of imperfect human design. It’s too long for one book, but probably too short for ...
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    48,02 €

  • Essays on the Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos
    Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. The final paper, on multiple discrep...
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    268,15 €

  • Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research
    Alex C. Michalos
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement was founded by Alex C. Michalos and published its first issue in March 1974. It has been the leading journal for scholarly research in its field for over thirty years. This volume is published in celebration of that record of accomplishment. The ...
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    64,65 €

  • Essays on the Quality of Life
    Alex C. Michalos
    Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never published before. The final paper, on multiple discrep...
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    266,80 €

  • A Pragmatic Approach to Business Ethics
    Alex C. Michalos
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    144,10 €

  • Global Report on Student Well-Being
    Alex C. Michalos
    I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well­ Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the es­ sential features of the international university undergraduate data-set on whi...
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    133,78 €

  • Global Report on Student Well-Being
    Alex C. Michalos
    I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well­ Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the essential features of the international university undergraduate data­ set on whic...
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    207,55 €

  • Global Report on Student Well-Being
    Alex C. Michalos
    I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well­ Being. Therefore, I will not review the background literature relevant to multiple discrepancies theory (MDT), the theory itself or the essential features of the international university undergraduate data­ set on whic...
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    133,87 €

  • Global Report on Student Well-Being
    Alex C. Michalos
    What makes people satisfied or happy with their lives or with particular features of their lives? In his attempt to answer these questions, the author has applied his Multiple Discrepancies Theory to study the satisfaction and happiness of university undergraduates in 39 countries. The project aims to explain global satisfaction and happiness as well ...
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    134,05 €

  • North American Social Report
    Alex C. Michalos
    For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in­ troductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the qUality of life. In the frrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators and so­ cial reporting, and explained all t...
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    66,56 €

  • Environment, Transportation, and Housing
    A. C. Michalos / Alex C. Michalos
    For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in­ troductory remarks are in orde{about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the quality of life. In the first chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators and so­ cial reporting, and explained all th...
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    66,19 €

  • North American Social Report
    Alex C. Michalos
    For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the ftrst, some introductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all ftve volumes to measure the quality of life. In the ftrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators and social reporting, and explained all the g...
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    134,16 €

  • North American Social Report
    A. C. Michalos / Alex C. Michalos
    For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in­ troductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the quality of life. In the frrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social indicators and so­ cial reporting, and explained all t...
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    66,37 €

  • North American Social Report
    Alex C. Michalos
    It would have been nice to have been able to write this book with the style of Mailer, the wit of Shaw, the breadth of Myrdal and the zeal of Nader. It would also have been miraculous. Rest assured there are no miracles here. On the contrary, the work in your hands undoubtedly bears all the marks of imperfect human design. It’s too long for one book, ...
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    133,91 €

  • The Popper-Carnap Controversy
    Alex C. Michalos
    1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error. The error was presumably committed by J. M. Keynes, H. Reichen­ bach and R. Carnap. 2 It was Popper’s intention then, to expose the error and to...
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    67,01 €